Technically talking, WE DON’T TRUST YOU is Future and Metro Boomin‘s first official joint mission. By some means that looks like an incorrect assertion seeing as the 2 ATLiens have constructed what most would name the gold customary for entice rap during the last decade.
Future’s oozing Auto-Tuned vocals and catchy lyrics concerning the trials and tribulations of the entice laid over Metro’s infectious drum patterns and rattling 808s are virtually fashionable rap gospel at this level. Which is why calling this joint album “their first collaborative mission” doesn’t really feel proper. For nearly a decade, Metro has been dealing with most of Future’s manufacturing on solo albums, collab albums and even multi-platinum loosies.
That mentioned, WE DON’T TRUST YOU carries a distinct tone than most different Metro and Future collaborations. This time round, it looks like these iconic producer tags are personified or have come to life. The songs are extra poignant, pointed and purposeful — or at the very least the primary few songs in any case.
As quickly as listeners press play, they’ll instantly discover how ferocious, but front-loaded this album is. The primary six tracks are extremely sturdy and make for a damn-near excellent EP. However, in fact, there are 11 extra tracks that get increasingly mid the additional you get down the tracklist. That isn’t to say that the final two thirds of the album is essentially dangerous, it merely feels like Foot Locker playlist background noise compared to the primary half dozen tracks. For that purpose, WE DON’T TRUST YOU doesn’t completely stay as much as its full potential.
Title monitor “We Don’t Belief You” is a sluggish burning entice by numbers heater that lays out the duo’s thesis assertion clearly: “Faux written throughout you… we don’t belief you.” This seamlessly rolls into the Weeknd-assisted “Younger Metro,” which could find yourself being the album’s most streamed monitor. Face-melting synths and rapid-fire hi-hats give Future and Abel house to get off some bars and subsequent croons.
“Ice Assault” and “Claustrophobic” are two trademark “Future prod. By Metro Boomin” songs that sound excellent now, and each may match completely right into a previous mission and can seemingly sound simply pretty much as good in 10 years. “Kind Shit,” which is a real meeting of contemporary rap’s Avengers, hears Travis Scott and Playboi Carti lend their very own dystopian distorted vocals to Metro’s harrowing beat that may finest be described as Medieval church bells drenched with thundering 808s.
After which there’s the Kendrick Lamar verse on “Like That” — the kind of verse that may each assist and hinder an album. Regardless of the album having some actually excessive moments that spotlight Metro and Future’s decade-defining chemistry, the streets and tweets will solely speak about Kendrick’s Drake and J. Cole diss. It doesn’t take a detective to determine that Kendrick very particularly takes pictures at each rappers when he spits: “Fuck sneak dissin’, first particular person shooter/ I hope they got here with three switches,” and, in fact, the road everybody has been shedding their minds over: “Muthafuck the Huge 3/ It’s simply massive me.”
The verse itself is strong and the music goes exhausting as nicely however, much like his genre-stopping verse on Huge Sean‘s “Management,” it steals the present for the unsuitable causes. Plus, rumors have been swirling for a while about Metro and Drake having their very own obvious beef which simply provides extra gas to the fireplace. So in some methods Kendrick truly retains the alarming vitality of the album alive along with his battle bars – and in all honesty, followers may rejoice within the chaos that’s certainly about to be a really aggressive summer time 2024 in Hip Hop.
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From this level on, nonetheless, the album loses steam shortly. One purpose for this halt in consideration is the dearth of variety in subject material. Not that anybody is on the lookout for Future to talk on political or financial state of the world however a ballad or two wouldn’t have harm this album. It didn’t should be an album chock filled with ballads however WE DON’T TRUST YOU actually doesn’t have many moments devoted to the women. Prior to now, songs like “My Assortment” or “I Received” would at the very least present Future’s softer aspect and damaged up the pacing of an album of this size. As a substitute, this album is an hour of warning pictures to these whom Metro doesn’t belief.
There’s a small glimmer of sound switch-up on the Rick Ross-assisted “On a regular basis Hustle.” It’s an ideal chopped, pitched and chipmunk’ed soul pattern with snappy drums and hi-hats that’s paying homage to that “previous Kanye” everybody is aware of and loves. Plus, Rozay’s verse is as soon as once more prime notch.
In brief, WE DON’T TRUST YOU ought to have been shorter. The primary half dozen tracks, with just a few different gems scattered scarcely all through, present simply how musically linked Metro and Future actually are however followers will have the ability to inform when the targeted materials ends and the frivolous filler begins. What ought to by no means be forgotten, although, is that Future and Metro have persistently delivered high-quality tracks that each push the bounds of what’s stylish and timeless… on the similar rattling time.
RELEASE DATE: March 22, 2024
RECORD LABEL: Epic/Wilburn Holding Co. & Boominati Worldwide
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